The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1932, Page 3

Ohio Worker Shows Up the Boss Cl ass Face of Local Charity Relief No Relief for Those Who Don’t Support Capi- talist Parties (By a Worker Correspondent) New Boston, Ohio. Gentlemen: If you aré interested in local affairs, here is a description of conditions in this city. i New Boston is a railroad and mill town near Portsmouth. When the Repulican “prosperity” was at its best the average worker could not make enough to furnish himself and farnily with the necessities of life. The bosses and their women had every luxury. The Workers live in abject misery. The workers are being told that everything will be allright after the next election if they voté for the right candidate but they are begin-! ning to wake up. ‘ The Portsmouth Red Cross is the leader of the charity grafters. If one applies for relief, he must answer aj lot of foolish questions and a snoop- | ing investigator comes out and asks | more questions. If a worker shows he is in favor of labor unions or politics, he is refused rélief. If a worker doesn’t work for the “right”! political party, he also has no chance to get relief. On the other hand, some workers have been recommend- ed for relisf by local politicians, and they get it without any red tape. ‘These persons are known open Use The Daily Worker to Organize, Says New Member of the Party Editor Daily Worker: Alter being in the Party two weeks | my Unit assigned me the task of selling ten Daily Workers in my neighborhood and as a result of my visits to the workers in the neighbor- hood I was not only able to sell the Daily Workers but I was able to talk to the workers about the class struggle, and now the workers are coming into my house to learn more about our movement. So far I have been able to organize two block com- mittees of unemployed and have a possibility of organizing others since there ere workers coming into my hhouSe from other blocks. I will then connect them up in a neighborhood council. I am of the opinion that the best way to popularize our movement and ali of our campaigns as well as to increase the circulation of our paper is for every comrade to canvass his particular neighborhood with the; Daily Worker, and talk to the neigh- | bors about our movement and the class struggle. The sooner we are able to acquaint the workers with our movement the sooner we will be able to put an end to the capitalist sys- tem of starvation, misery and terror. Comradely yours, K: G, N. Y. CENTRAL LAY-OFF New York City. June 15th the New York Central laid off more workers on the Hudson division. Somé of the passenger de- partments at the Grand Central have been closed and a great number of girls laid off. Workers receiving a salary of $300 a month or more got a cut of 20%. When the great Her- bert “overcame” the crisis, he “for- got” the N. Y. Central workers. —R. R. Worker. ‘red. shoppers who can be relied upon for strikebreaking, etc. New Boston workers are tired of these conditions and will support any organized effort | to better their lot. —New Boston Worker, | Correspondence Briefs INDIANA POLICE TERROR Richmond, Ind Dear Comrades Conditions are growing worse each day, Thé Red Cross has sent out a few sacks of flour and the social ser- | vice planned to cut the groceries the | following week. Police terror is ter- | rible here. No open air meetings are | allowed. The mayor has ruled day- WHERE HEROIC DETROIT JOBLESS WERE MURDERED BY FORD'S POLICE derous protest against it. rect iv rst Su MASSES PROTEST of the workers, saying, “To hell with | the people, I am running Richmond.” < Fraternally, —WORKER. Sian ay TAMPA DICKS ROB WORKER’S HOME Tampa, Fla. My home is in this city. I was ar- rested at my home in the evening of | Nov, 7th after the cops had broken up the meeting in the Labor Temple. About five cops rushed into my room and started beating me up. The cops stayed in my house three days using our food and ruining our furniture. My wife did not dare come home until they left. She had been arrested with me. They took our typewriter and seventeen dollars in cash, and other personal belongings | which I never got back. They took me out on the road and made me lie down and beat me with leather to “knock the Communism out of me,” as they said. When through they left me to get back as best 1 could. They also made me drink two bottles of oil. —F. F. Crawford. NEGRO VET WRITES Camp Anacostia. Dear Comrades: When we get in here, the stool-| pigeons point us out to the M.P.'s and they took us to the commander of the camp. He says, “You're a damn All right, men, give him the works.” The strong arm squad take you in a car and beat you up before turning you loose. I was arrested last week and told to leave town. We are still fighting and calling for unity of all veterans wii the unemployed. The Negroes are kept in Peru avenue in an old broken-down house and have to wash pots if they want to stay. A preacher came down and told us that we must take our bibles and pray. A veteran was put out of the camp for telling him to go to tell. Comradely yours, —Negro Veteran. CER RS Blanche, Ky. Daily Worker: Here at Arjay, Ky., we have about one hundred blacklisted miners. We meet every Sunday, We are in bad condition but are going to stay in it wri] hell freezes over the operators and Red Cross. We have had wage cuts until we are starving to leath. Our families are naked and starv- ing but we will organize. Seamen Demand Free Speech in Phila. (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA. — The Phila- delphia Marine Workers Industrial Union has been holding open-air | meet on the waterfront. On June 9th the police tried to provoke @ Negro worker to fight the workers who were standing around denounc- ing the M. W. I. U. "che second speaker was announced to speak in Polish, as there are ebout two thousand Polish longshore- meén who do not understand English very Ay. The police came over and that the speaker would have to speak in English or not at all. This is an attempt of the cops to break up the M. W. I. U. and stop it, from “organizing. Only a few weeks ago Paddy Baker, delegate of I. L. A., sent gangsters to throw bricks at ‘the M. W. I. U. meeting. At the close of the meeting @ resolution of protest to the chief of police protesting against police in- terference and illegal action against the Polish speaker was read and adopted by two thousand marine workers. —Marine Worker. Deaths from Starvation Daily in Virginia (By a Werker Correspondent) POCAHONTAS, Va.—In this coal field the conditioris of the miners have become absolutely desperate. ‘They are working one or two days, seldom on a thrée day week- For their work the miners hardly get any money in return. All are deducted by the com- rent, hospital bills, insurance salary of church preachers. poverty, privation and destitution The Pocahontas Fuel Co. who owns and rules this section of the state is almost a separate government within the government. This company with its courts, militia, thugs, stool pigeons and fake preachers has created an unspeakable terrorism, and has brought down the entire working masses to the standard of Chinese coolies. No man on earth can chal- lenge this brutal power. Death from starvation is here in daily occurence. We must organize and fight in the masses here no pén can com- of the mai pletely describe. i NM.U. Stripped of Belongings by Homeless Buro (By a Worker ST. LOUIS, Mo—In this city we Bureau for Men There js a lot of pro- Er i ee Correspondent) being no more roomers. When I asked the buregu for room rent until I got a job I was turned down, They about the |“help’| wanted to send me to 4360 W: - is giving te the job | ton Ave. a “home” for jobless > me the jen, a veritable poor house. “I told them that I had some a few personal belongings the | which I woyld like to store away. I asked what to do with them and the officials advised me to sell them. I everything, two full of ie Hi i i sé u ge 3 ES i gy 2 & i 1, i h i 3 i z 2 | fn | Wave of Struggle Hits Jim Crow Conventions BULLETIN | CHICAGO., Ii, June 22.—Masses of unemployed and part-time work- ers here will demonstrate against the Democratic Party program of fake relief (Garner Dill, etc.) and starvation of tens of thousands in the Democratic controlled city of Chicago. They will demonstrate at Honore and Jackson Blvd., near the hall where the Democratic Party Nationa IConvention will then be opening, at 11 a. m., Monday. Workers for the Relief Commis- | sion have declared a strike against forced labor; 12,000 are slaving all day for a miserable soup and a place to sleep in a flophouse. The workers have elected a strike com- mittee, and are picketing all at- tempts to ship them out by foree. | There wiil be a demonstration Friday at 7 a. m. before the flop- house, 116 South Green St. | The Unemployed Council and the | Communist Party call all to help picket and to demonstrate, hee ee CHICAGO, Ill, June 22—A trem- endous demonstration of Negro and white workers, ninety per. cent native Temple. The demonstration was in j Protest against the Jim Crow and lynching policies of the Republican Party, and against the Dies deporta- tion bill. This demonstration was called as a direct result of police attack on 200 Negro workers who were demonstrat- ing last week before the Vincennes Hotel, where the Republican National Convention had Jim Crowed them. Arrested Negroes Speak. Speakers at the protest meeting were the six Negro -workers arrested at the Vincennes Hotel demonstra- tion, and bailed out on $1,000 each. Among these bailed workers were Leonides McDonald, Communist can- didate for governer; Poindexter, a Communist candidate for congress- man from the second district, and Squire Brown, a Communist presiden- tial elector. Baxter, McSweeney, Porter, and | Fuller, the other arrested workers, were present and cheered by the au- dience. Newton for Congress, Herbert Newton, Negro worker and | Communist candidate for congress- man against Oscar Depriest, and Joe Jackson, Communist candidate for assemblyman, challenged Depriest to debate his policies, | The audience repeatedly signified | its enthusiasm for the election of Newton and Jackson, and other Com- munist candidates. It adopted reso- lutions demanding the release of Mooney, the Scottsboro boys, against imperialist war and for payment of | the workers’ bonus and for unemploy- ment insurance. Hoover, Cermak and Depriest were loudly booed. ~ Starts Big Struggle. This meeting starts a struggle against discrimination against Negro workers throughout Chicago. ~ Friday morning at 11 a. m, there will be a mass demonstration against the Providence Hospital at 5ist St. and Vincennes. This hospital has the support of the A.F.L, in its refusal to hire Negro plumbers and steam fitters, Friday at 7 p. m., there will be a demonstration at Park for the right to speak and against police ter- ror. June 29 at 5 p. m, there will be another demonstration at the Vicen- nes Hotel against the Jim Crowing of Democratic National Convention Negro delegates, which symbolizes the lynching spirit of the Democratic Party. July 20, at 11 a. m, there will be a joint convention for the first con- gressional and third senatorial dis- trict, in Pythian Temple. VOTZ COMMUNIST FOR: 1, Unemployment and Socia! In- surance at the expense of the state and employers, 2. Against Hoover’s wage-cutting policy. 3. Emergency relief for the poor farmers without restrictions by the government and banks; ex~ emption of poor farmers from taxes, no forced collec- ton or debts. ‘nf rents mass protest, was aimed against the workers of the state, THRUOUT CHICAGO| born, took place last night at Pythian | labor attorney of Detroit, who took a Michigan law. Sugar is in New® York prior to his departure tomor- row for Europe where he will attend the World Congress Against War in Geneva on August 1. Later he will be a fraternal delegate to the Inter- national Congress of Revolutionary Writers in Tiflis, USSR. as one of the representatives of the John Reed Clubs of the U. S. A. “The Dies Bill,” declared Sugar, “is an attempt on a national scale, and through direct methods, to do what the Michigan bill tried to do indirectly by a system of registra- tion, fingerprinting and espionage.” Detroit an Example. In Detroit, he pointed out, where there is a huge foreign-born popula- tion, the Dtes bill would strike a terrific blow at the unemployed work. ers in their fight against starvation “Detroit is the second largest Pol- ish city in the world,” he pointed out, being second only to Warsaw. “Demonstrations for relief, resist- ance to wage cuts and speed-up would be weakened, and the en- actment of the bill would not only affect the foreign-born but also the native-born workers.” The Dies Bill, if enacted, he said, would make it illegal to have advo- cated the overthrow of the Czarist regime or at present to advocate the overthrow of the Japanese imperial- ist or Italian fascist government. Nation-Wide Attack. “This law is framed as a counter- part of the thirty-odd criminal syn- dicalist law, and is even more vicious in its intent.” Sugar, in commenting on the re- cent Ford massacre of the unem- ployed auto workers before the Dear- born plant, pointed out that the framers of the bill declare it is “il- legal to believe in the propriety of killing officers of any government but leave the inference that it is quite “legal” and permissable to kill jobless workers and revolutionary leaders. According to the wording of the Dies bill, it is “perfectly legal to ad- vocate the killnig of ‘officers and in- dividuals’ in the U.S.S.R., since it registration-fingerprinting bill in Michigan last year. This was the opinion expressed here today by Maurice Sugar, active leading part in the fight against the does not fall into the category of “organized governments” from the point of view of the U. S. State De- partment. Defeated by Workers, ‘The Michigan fingerprinting and} registration bill was passed last year by the legislature and signed by the governor. Dut to the tremendous storm of protest which followed the adoption of the bill, however, the state supreme court was compelled | to declare it “unconstitutional,” stat- ing that all questions dealing with citizenship, etc., was a federal ques- tion. The act provided for the issuance by the state of “a certificate of legal residence to all alliens legally resi- dent in Michigan after they have established proof of legality of their entrance to the U. S.” Since the police could at all times demand the certificate from any worker, it was clearly am instrument against the native as well as the foreign-born. The registration and fingerprinting, cu the other hand, would offer an effective basis for widespread black- lists. Backed by Bosses. The Michigan bill was shoved through the Legislature under the in- spiration of one, Jacob Spolansky, to whom the Fish Committee in its report gave express recognition as the “special representative of the Na- tional Metal Trades Association, De- troit.” The Association, it was revealed has branches in Detroit and 38 other cit- ies, members of the association in- cluding General Motors, Chrysler Corporation and other leading open- shop, labor-hating corporation. Spol- ansky had also been in the hire of the Union League of Michigan whose chairman of its “Council of Public Affairs” is Col. Walter C. Cole, for- mer executive vice-president of the Metropolitan Trust Company of De- troit; director of the Detroit, Board of Commerce; member of the Commit- tee on National Defense of the U.S Chamber of Commerce; and national president of the Reserve Officers As- sociation of the U. S. Shanghai Deat haq taken place just a short. time: before. Bones and skulls of humans could be found in many places, where the slaughtered people had been burned. Battered Ruins In Chapei. Saw also the pitiful sight of home- less people roaming about, with no place to go, their homes all wrecked, while just a few blocks away on the Nanking Road, where the capitalist property is, a person wouldn't have known there was a war at Shanghai. Not one of the buildings of the for- eign settlement was touched; only Chapei, where the workers lived was treated to the murderous fire of Japanese artillery, warships and bombing planes. Also coming up the Hoang Pu River to Shanghai, Woosung is on the right, battered to ruins, where many lives were lost. This town, too, was inhabited only by working people. Imperialist War Dogs. Then, farther up the river, one sees the battleships and destroyers of many nations, there to help the rape of China. There are English, Amer- ican, French and Japanese ships of war, with soldiers of all nationalities at Shanghai, All these nations are robbing and exploiting Chinese peo- ple. What @ great help to the Chinese people if they could adopt a Soviet h and Ruin Told by a Marine Worker Human Bones Litter Chapei District (By a Worker Correspondent.) A couple of months ago, while in Shanghai, I witnessed some of the | terrible resulis of the deliberate campaign of frightfulness carried out by | the Japanese militarists against the Chinese people. 1 was through the battered Chapei district, Shanghai. Here I saw the | first real scenes of the terrible bombardment of this civilian district that Government like the people of Russia. Then I am sure our Chinese brothers would be much happier, But the for- eign warships and troops are there to prevent the Chinese people solying their problems in this way. The for- eign warships are even now engaged in attacking the Chinese Red Armies of the Chinese Soviet districts, where the masses have emancipated them- selves from ty. oppression of the im~ perialists ‘nd their Kuomintang agents, (Signed) R. 5. (Mecber of Marine Workers’ dustrial Union.) In- é A phase of the march of the unemployed auto workers of Detroit before Ford’s Dearborn plant on March 7, treating before the workers. A few minutes later four unemployed were shot to death. The Michigan registration law, defeated last year by : A Maurice Sugar, Detroit attorney, who has defended many workers framed-up by the Michigan bosses, says that the Dies Bill soon to come up in the Senate can als obe defeated if the workers of the whole country join in a thun- Dies Bill Can Be Defeated, _|ARNER FOR RED- Detroit Labor Attorney Says BAITING PROGRAM ‘Sugar Active in Victorious Fight on Bill in Borah Adds to Wet-) Michigan to Register Foreign-Born | NEW YORK.—Organized and effective working class protest can kill | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the Dies exclusion and deportation bill as it did the vicious “Spoliansky’ showing company police re- Dry Tangle | arrested and many more ar jan alleged | the police. By ENTERED the station on the east si out committees, assigned another ¢ natures for the Communist Party. Street It was a bright sunny Saturday a knocked at the door. A tired voice answered: “Who is it?” “A worker wants to speak to you about prob- lems of great importance to you as a worker, about your conditions a 50 ARRESTED IN RUMANIA, CHARGED WITH “RED PLOT" BUCHAREST —Fifty er ere expected wot to be arrested soon in connection with red plot” discovered by The purpose of t according to an official rep to cause discontent in thi A German whose me be Gustav Arnold, reported to be the organizer of the plot which “had been backed by ample funds from the Berlin Communist Centre The Communist Party was banned | sit at- by the government from partici ing in the coming elections. YUGOSLAVIAN OFFICERS SENTENCED BELGRADE, — Two officers were |sentenced to death by the Extraor-|ynemployed for some time. Only Three Blocks E GROSSMAN de. The comrade in charge of sending omrade to go with me to collect sig- The block was Third Avenue and 102nd fternoon. worker Soon the door was wide open. A/ Negro woman appeared, wiping her wet hands on a towel. “Good morn- ing. Come in,, sit down.” It was so dark inside, at first we thought we were in a storage room. My comrade looked at me and I looked at him. We could hardly say a word. The so-called room looked like a four-corner box. The only. window in the room faced @ gray brick wall which made it impossible for air or sunshine to penetrate. The gas was covered with a piece of; g. A dim burning candle took the place of daylight. The dresser looked! There were two broken table covered with a torn oil cloth, a bed, in a corner a kerosene stove was placed. When we entered the room, we al- most stepped on something. “Come here, baby,” the Negro woman said. A baby, about four years old, was on the floor, nude. She took the child from the floor and put him into the bed, She was ashamed of We walked to the top floor, Ss just a couple of suits and to wait until they dry. I jam washing them now. I have been Every | Should receive no encouragement from | dinary Court for the protection of the| day I look for work, can’t find none. | | | | any American citizen, high or low.”| “High or low!” in the opinion of | this regularly inclined “Democrat,” | the workers evidently’are “low” and he is going to try to keep them low.! Put Dies Bill Through. | Garner was speaker of the housé| when it passed the vicious Dies bill | a few days ago. Garner is the author | of the so-called relief bill which is| now before the Senate, for appropri- | ating $2,000,000, not for unemployment | relief or insurance, but for buuilding | contractors, under the false and dem- | agogic argument that this will benefit | the unemployed. He introduces his} remarks on belief in his statement} yesterday this way: “No sound| thinking citizen can favor the dole.” And by dole, Garner, like Hoover, | means unemployment insurance. For Federal Wage Cuts. | Garner puts first on his list the| false issue of prohibition repeal. He | advocates lower tariffs, since he} comes from Texas, where no big in- terests demand tariffs. He calls for more loans abroad and easier credit terms for big business at home, for collection of war debts and for reduc- tion of costs of government by at least one third. Reduction of govern- ment costs means in these years, cut- ting the pay of Federa! employes, or laying them off. Garner does not suggest any reduction in war expendi tures. Garner's program shows he will be a real enemy of the workers, both} native and foreign born, launching} terror and starvation on them no less vigorously than Hoover does. } The other main Democratic Party | candidates for president are Smith| and Roosevelt. Their programs will not differ materially from Garner's. Roosevelt has already been caught | trafficking with the Ku Klux Klan. | Borah Tangles Issues, | | The Republican Party is faced with somewhat of a split because of Bo-| rah’'s sudden bolting and refusal to| support Hoover in the elections, Bo- rah makes an issue of the “wet-dry” plank in the Republican Party pists} form, which he interprets as a wet | plank, to the considerable worriment | of a number of Republican editors | who have been calling it a dry plank. | Neither side stops to explain how a | change from bootlegging to legal em- | ployment of a certain number of, men in the liquor business can affect the | unemployment question for the work- | | ers i Workers’ Book Shop In “Vacation” Sale NEW YORK.—The Workers’ Book Shop, 50 E. 13th Street., announces a “vacation sale” during the week of June 25. A 20% discount is being} offered on books and literature in purchases of $1 or more including the Marxist Library and other publica- tions of Internationa! Publishers. The new book by Foster, “Toward Soviet | America,” will be sold at $1, together with any other $1 purchase. Many books will be priced even lower. The Book Shop announces that it has ob. tained a supply of “Women and So- cialism,” by August Bebel, which will during the sale be sold for 35 esnts, *, regular price being $1.50. ‘he Book Shop is open from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. C. M. T. C. Officer with Workers NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Citizens’ Military Training Association is holding preliminary training sessions and I went to the 69th Armory re- cently to get my pass. It was given without any trouble and being a—~—~ (certain rank of officer) T was asked to help in the drilling of the men inere. I feigned an appointment to escape the assignment but before leaving asked the officer a few ques- tions, Who was figancing these drills? He said the government was sup- plying the armory and the euns went with the armory and the officers of , \ the reserve who were assigned to CMTC camps this summer were or- dered to lead the drill To the question of the purpose of the drills he replied they were to make the 30 days training period more advanced in military tactics, etc. by eliminating the time necessary for rifle and drill instruction, IT am attending further drills in order to see the turnout and detect the type of talks made to the men. T will keep you posted on further developments, Comradely, Ofticer, State. They were involved in a re- cent “conspiracy.” Several workers were killed and many wounded in several cities dur- ing the commemoration of Stephen Raditch and his comrades of Croatian Farmers Party killed in Par- liament four years ago. URG CANCELLATION OF WAR DEBTS ITHACA, N. Y.—Declaring the seiz- ure of Manchuria raised a new mili- | tary menace in the Orient of which all nations, and not only China, must take account, Dr. Shurman advocated cancellation of war debts and repara- tion tributes as paving the way for “international cooperation.” Dr. Shurman, former Ambassador to Germany and Minister to Chi told the 64th graduating class of Cor nell University that France, Germany, England and the United States must remove all causes of international friction to face the economic crisis and its political consequences in “close formation.” He did not mention the Soviet Union in his speech, but there is no doubt that he had it in mind when urging this “international coopera- tion.” Vote Communist BUTTONS Are Ready for MASS SALE and Distribution Order Now—$20 a Thousand Send Check With Order— Or Will Send C. O. D. Order from your District or from— Communist Party, U.S.A. P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York, N. Y, No relief coming from anyone. I will have to starve with my baby.” “We will take you to the relief sta- tion. The unemployed council will | take care of you.” She Looked at Us Wondering. Her eyes became brigher. She looked at us wondering whether we meant what we said. “We are here to collect signatures for the coming presidential election. We are going to put on the ballet a werker for president. The only Party which fights for unemploy- ment and social insurance at the expense of the bosses, is the Com- munist Party, the party that fights for the interest of the workers and farmers, the Party that demands equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt.” ‘Of course, I'll sign and I will vote, too.” The rest of the tenants did like- wise. They all signed | What a Contrast. | When we came out into the open jair we took a deep breath We walked along Fifth Ave. A maid dressed in white wheeling @ light |gray baby carriage, a well-fed baby, | dressed in pink. | A lady came by with a white, clean poodle dog. What a contrast. And only three blocks from Fifth Avenue. Workers Eat Garbage: | City Manager Says No ‘Need for Jobless ‘Aid (By a Worker Corres: , CINCINNATI. Ohio.—The City | Manager of Cincinnati claims that | this city does not need any state re- | lief, that it can take care of itself. | In Cincinnati there are four yards that ship fruit and vegetables. Every rorning at about 6 o'clock there are | some two hunared workers arougd trying to get, the rctten foodstuff that is thrown out. There are detectives in these yards. About two years ago there were only two to each yard. Now they have four te each yard, a total of 16. The workers are warned not to trespass in the yards, But it hap- pened that a quantity of rotten stuff was thrown out, and a Negro worker made a dash towards the place. All jat once he fell, shot by a “dick” of the railroad officials. One hour later the worker died at the general hos« AUGUST Ist! 1,000,000 COPIES of Dail Fad orker Darty USA, the SPECIAL ANTI-WAR ISSUE FIGHT IMPERIALIST WAR! *, Defend the Soviet Union by Spreading This Issue f USE THIS ISSUE TO GET NEW SUBS ALL WORKERS AND WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS! PREPARE YOUR PLANS! Special rates for this issue only—$7 for 1000, $3.50 for 500 DAILY WORKER—40 E. 13th St., N. Y. €. ORDERS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY CASH! — Sales ND oe